ST CLAIR SHORES, Mich. – Good Samaritans rushed into Lake Saint Clair to rescue a woman from her car.
It happened Tuesday, July 23, at Lake Front Park, not far from Nine Mile Road.
It was an extremely unusual sight -- a white sedan fully submerged underwater. At some point, a woman was inside. She’s believed to have been having a mental breakdown, but thankfully, a man who wants no recognition saw it all and immediately jumped in the water to help.
“I walked out there and seen a lady in the car, so I quickly jumped in and we noticed she was struggling to get out and she wasn’t coherent,” he recalled. “We got her to climb out the window and pulled her out. Just swam her to shore and that was it.”
The events leading to the woman driving her car over hundreds of feet of grass and barely missing several trees before driving into the water are unknown at this time. At one point, there was even more panic at the thought of another person being inside the vehicle.
“She was saying there’s somebody else in there and we didn’t see anyone else, but the car was sinking quick. We went back underwater. We didn’t see anyone else in there,” he recalled. “We got scared because she was saying 3-year-old and then she was saying 23-year-old.”
Luckily, there was no one else in the vehicle.
Another Good Samaritan was also there to help -- a 15-year-old from Grosse Pointe joined in to help as well.
“One of the neighbor kids, he was out here fishing and followed me in,” the man said. “He jumped right behind and swam out there and helped with the whole rescue.”
The woman in the car is expected to be OK, which may not have been the case if it weren’t for the two who helped.